Artillery Shells and Tank Ammunition Production in Warium

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Artillery shells and heavy tank rounds deliver long-range ballistic firepower against fortified bunkers and armored entities in Warium. Fabricating high-caliber ammunition requires manufacturing dedicated casings, chemical payload charges, and sensitive impact fuzes before seating each shell into a propellant sleeve.

Chemical Compounds and Propellant Bags

Propelling heavy ordnance through rifled gun barrels demands specialized propellant and volatile chemical mixtures:

Artillery Propellant: Crafted by combining three sheets of Paper with three units of Propellent in a crafting grid, yielding one propellant charge.
Propellent: Formulated by combining two Gunpowder and two Lead Dust items to produce four propellant charges.
Volatile Dust: Created by mixing three Gunpowder with one Redstone Dust, yielding one explosive charge.
Fire Agent: Used in incendiary payloads to generate persistent fire bursts upon impact.
Toxic Agent: Used in gas shells to disperse area-denial chemical clouds.

Assembling Heavy Artillery Shells

Field howitzers and stationary artillery cannons utilize dedicated large-diameter projectiles assembled with an Impact Fuze and a hollow projectile body:

Artillery HE Shell: High-explosive shell crafted from one Impact Fuze, two units of Volatile Dust, and one Huge Projectile Hollow. Explodes with immense concussive force on contact.
Artillery Fire Shell: Incendiary round assembled from one Impact Fuze, one Volatile Dust, two units of Fire Agent, and one Huge Projectile Hollow.
Artillery Gas Shell: Chemical agent shell built from one Impact Fuze, two units of Toxic Agent, and one Huge Projectile Hollow.
Artillery Solid Shell: Kinetic bombardment slug crafted directly from a single Huge Projectile.

Manufacturing Large Tank Shells

Direct-fire tank guns fire specialized cartridge-cased ammunition tailored for penetration, fragmentation, or blast effect:

Large AP Shell: High-velocity anti-armor cartridge crafted from one APFSDS Projectile, four sheets of Paper, and two units of Propellent. Pierces heavy armor plates through extreme kinetic energy density.
Large HE Shell: General-purpose explosive round crafted from one HE Projectile, four sheets of Paper, and two units of Propellent.
Large HEAT Shell: Shaped-charge armor-defeating round crafted from one HEAT Projectile, four sheets of Paper, and two units of Propellent.
Large Flak Shell: Anti-air proximity fragmentation shell assembled from one Flak Projectile, four sheets of Paper, and two units of Propellent.
Large Canister Shell: Anti-infantry shotgun-style round crafted from one Canister Projectile, four sheets of Paper, and two units of Propellent.
Large Smoke Shell: Obscuration shell crafted from one Smoke Projectile, four sheets of Paper, and two units of Propellent.
Large Solid Shell: Heavy solid penetrator assembled from one Extra Large Projectile, four sheets of Paper, and two units of Propellent.

Machining APFSDS Penetrators

The APFSDS Projectile serves as the core armor-piercing projectile for heavy tank guns. Machining this dart requires:

Four Cast Component pieces placed around one Uranium Depleted Ingot on the crafting table.
The dense depleted uranium core gives the sub-caliber dart high sectional density for penetrating heavy armored targets.